INTERLOCHEN INNOVATES With COVID-19 Crisis
Since COVID-19's impact hit Interlochen in March, our ability to innovate has soared despite uncertain conditions. Interlochen adapted its artistic and academic education to a virtual format for both the Academy and Interlochen Online, reimagining the 93rd season of Interlochen Arts Camp. Our faculty initiated new ways of teaching and our students found new ways of learning. Dozens of guest artists “Zoomed” in to perform and demonstrate techniques. Interlochen’s best-loved traditions—Festival, Honors Convocation, Commencement, First Gathering, "Collage," and "Les Préludes"—took place virtually in homes worldwide. Interlochen Public Radio remained on-air and served as a lifeline for the northern Michigan community. Interlochen donated hundreds of pounds of organic fruit and vegetables from the R.B. Annis Botanical Lab and Community Garden to a local food pantry. Meanwhile, we planned for reopening Interlochen Arts Academy this fall. Our Campus Health Task Force worked with our nurse practitioner, a contagious disease specialist, to implement stringent health protocols and sanitization standards. We modified our academic calendar and created a contained campus environment.
Through it all you were with us, with your kind, generous support. Academy families donated their room and board refunds to the Annual Fund. Camp scholarship donors redesignated their support to Interlochen Online and Academy scholarships, the Annual Fund, and student hardship support. Camp families refunded deposits back to Interlochen, as did Interlochen College for Creative Arts registrants. And our Board of Trustees committed $1 million to jump start Interlochen’s new Emergency Response Fund. While uncertainty continues, Interlochen’s innovation accelerates—thanks to an incredible campus community and donors like you.
“I am so incredibly proud and impressed of how our faculty and staff embraced the challenges of developing substantive online curricula for Academy and Camp. They showed—once again— Interlochen’s leadership in arts education worldwide.” — Camille Colatosti, Provost
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2020 ANNUAL REPORT
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